Counterpoint Quilt

A recent finish of a quilt with a modern feel. I used a new line of fabric from Quilts at the Marshall House where the quilt is on display. From the leftover corner squares I was able to make another lap or crib size half square triangle quilt.

Getting rows laid out ready for adding sashing and sewing together.

Pattern by Mountainpeak.

Half square triangle quilt made from the scraps leftover from Counterpoint Quilt.

Counterpoint quilted and on display at Quilts at the Marshall House.

Quilted and on display at Quilts at the Marshall House.

365 Day Challenge

I began Kathryn Kerr's 365 Day Challenge Quilt a couple of months late but plan to catch up this month. I am only one month behind now. These little blocks are so much fun and cute, cute, cute. Yesterday I pieced the center medallion block. 

The yellow and blue print in the center is my focal fabric.

Dreamweaver from Missouri Star Block Book

Mistakenly I called this quilt checkerboard in a previous post but it is called Dreamweaver. Just finished getting the 2 borders on this morning and love how it turned out.

Finished at 73 x 82. 

I will quilt this in a design to mimic the one in the border.

Missouri Star Quilt Blocks

Having fun making one of Missouri Star's quilt patterns called Checkerboard. I am using a jelly roll of yellows, batik greens and fun blues from Laurel Birch Designs.  Then I am using a light gray for background and a medium gray for the sashing. I have enough fabric to make at least 2 nice sized quilts especially with the perfect border fabric that just came into the shop last Friday. Ellen set aside 5 yards for me. Pics will come later.

FYI: Laurel Birch jelly rolls, charm packs and layer cakes are available at Quilts at the Marshall House.

The block. 9 inch finished.

One row of blocks done so far. All the cutting is done and was easy with jelly rolls. Blocks sew up fast.

Picture of the Checkerboard quilt is on the cover of one of the latest Missouri Star books.

Fresh Picked by Blackbird Designs

My version of one of Blackbird Designs more recent books, Fresh Picked, is greatly reduced. After getting started I found too many others things I wanted to make so this 9 block top became a 1 block wall hanging. It is going on the frame today to begin quilting.

My choice of fabrics are nothing like the designers but do love their big pieces for needleturn applique.

Freckles from Make Wall Quilts

 Freckles is the name of this wall quilt using just scraps. I hand appliqued the "freckles" but they could be fused and sewn by machine just as well. This is hanging in the quilt shop right now until I decide where to hang in my home.
     The book, Make Wall Quilts, has 11 different wall quilt patterns from a variety of popular designers.

I chose straight line random boxes to quilt just the background and quilted around each "freckle". Just love the variety of fabrics and textures.

Not many good pattern books for only $15 and this one is a keeper. Hmm...what to do next?????

You Are My Sunshine

When this line of fabric came in I had to have the panel and the gorgeous floral for the border. And then I also picked up a couple yards of two other fabrics. In all I have enough fabric to make another quilt or two. You Are My Sunshine was a song my parents sang so I have lots of good memories with this besides loving the color and design. I made 12 patches between the panel blocks and added border. Quilted it with a 3 petal flower motif. Easy and fun to do.

Fabric is available at Quilts at the Marshall House.

The 12 patch blocks between the panel blocks were fabrics from the line as well as my stash.

Need this especially during the winter months.

Perfect lap quilt with happy color.

Custom Quilting

This is a recent custom quilting job I did for a customer's first grand daughter due next month. Loved quilting this one. So cute.

Just Can't Cut It

Just Can't Cut It is a quilt pattern perfect for using when you have a gorgeous fabric you don't want to cut. It takes 5 coordinating fabrics with easy blocks and a couple of borders. The pattern gives fabric amounts and measurements for 3 sizes of quilts. I made these 2 twin size quilts for my granddaughters when they come to my home.

Batik fabrics.

I still need to hang the butterfly and want to get night stands with matching lamps.

The pillow cases are made from A Flutter fabric panel.

I quilted with a large swirl and feathers surrounding the swirls.

Bargello In William Morris fabrics

A recent finish is this lap size bargello quilt made in all William Morris fabrics. The pattern is No-Measure Bargello. I chose to quilt in edge-to-edge feathers following the movement of the bargello design.

This quilt is hanging at Quilts at the Marshall House. The shop has an excellent selection of Wm. Morris fabrics including the newest line.

A little close up of the feathers. They are fun to quilt.

Kids Quilts

It is so hard to resist new children's fabric when it comes in at the shop. Just had to make these. One is using Sidelights II pattern and the other is a Yellow Brick Road. The last one with the farm animals is just a panel with a border.

Doodle Days panel in Sidelight II modified pattern.

Yellow Brick Road. Just loved the little critters on the fabric and soft yellows.

Just added a border to farm panel. This one had cut out animals that are flannel-backed so play a matching game with quilt.

New William Morris

Quilts at the Marshall House now has the new William Morris line of fabric with jelly rolls and layer cakes. Hmmm....what will I make?????

Doodle Day

Just had to get this panel for a child's quilt and some coordinating fabrics. I will use the Sidelights pattern adjusting the measurements to fit this panel and using some of the little critters as the "sidelights".

Critters are adorable. Fabric available at Quilts at the Marshall House.

Forest Friends Bowls

These cute little "bowls" are easy and fun to make using Bosal double-sided fusible stabilizer. It is easily heated and molded into the shape you want. Wouldn't one of these be nice to add to a baby quilt gift featuring one of these forest friends?

Pattern used to make bowls. Good directions to follow.

Quilts at the Marshall House

Loving that I am back working at Quilts at the Marshall House in Marshall, Michigan. This is truly my family. I purchased a home a short walk away making it even more convenient to be here often.

Here is what I have been working on lately:

One Block Wonder Encore
All ready to be quilted as soon as my bobbin winder arrives from Handiquilter.

A better pic showing the cubes.

Gypsy Star. The center flower and branches are wool. This pic is before the borders. It can be seen hanging at
Quilts at the Marshall House.

The first block of Laura Heine's Garden Party quilt. This is being done with batiks and fusible applique.